Category Archives: Funny Ad
More Doctors Smoke Camels
A 1949 TV commercial for Camel cigarettes What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor? Related Links: “The doctors’ choice is America’s choice”: the physician in US cigarette advertisements, 1930-1953. One strategic response of tobacco companies was to devise advertising referring directly to physicians. As ad campaigns featuring physicians developed through the early 1950s, tobacco executives used [...]
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Kotex Beaver
A bizarre commercial from Australia. I did not know one could find beavers in the land down under. See more at ubykotex.com and check out the link What happens at the GP?
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Sham Acupuncture
What is sham acupuncture? It is an acupuncture treatment that does not stimulate known acupuncture points. What is real acupuncture? In this new acupuncture study published in a real medical journal: A randomized trial comparing acupuncture, simulated acupuncture, and usual care for chronic low back pain [Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009 May 11]; simulated acupuncture [...]